Friday 5 April 2019

How did we end up in this Brexit mess? Two words – Theresa May

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It is hard, nay impossible, to deny we are witnessing the last days of the worst premiership in living memory, perhaps for centuries   ...
Mrs May brought all her disasters on herself – and on us.
There was no reason for the snap election, but once it was called there was no need for the appalling manifesto or catastrophic campaign.
Having frittered away a clear poll lead and secured a hung parliament, the lady turned her zero talents to negotiating our people-mandated Brexit.
She had access to brilliant negotiators but rebuffed them all. She appointed David Davis and Dominic Raab as Brexit ministers, then undermined them until they had no choice but to resign. Then she negotiated herself, aided and manipulated by her personal guru, the bureaucrat Olly Robbins. ....
There was nothing she touched that did not develop into a self-inflicted disaster.  ......
The two words "No Deal" have been successfully demonised by the civil service (100 percent), the MPs (70 percent) and the media (50 percent).
You might think it was a thermonuclear bomb over the Home Counties.
It is only the switching from one framework of trading rules (EU) to the global alternative World trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
With preparation that would take a week of dislocation.
As not one hour was spent on preparation over two years, it will take most of the summer. But once the soul-destroying chaos is gone, our ever-ingenious traders will get the job done and get on with our new journey to prosperity under our own flag and laws. "

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